Buy this book on-line DONOVAN, DAVID: : ONCE A WARRIOR KING - Memories of an Officer in VietnamLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1985. ISBN 0070145926.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.Very slightly rubbed edges dw/dj - shelf-wear.
Fore-edges slightly aged.323pp,includes 9pp glossary,and map.
An account of one man's remarkable experiences in Vietnam.The story of an average American sent to war by his country and whose sense of honour and responsibility came to extend beyond his immediate command to the people of the Vietnamese village,Tram Chin,he was ordered to defend.
A portrait of a humane soldier and compassionate man and the precarious mental and physical balance he maintained through the horrors of war Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta in April 1969,a raw idealistic first lieutenant fresh from Special Warfare School.He was assigned to an isolated four man team operating alone in a remote rural area of the Delta which was sent there to co-operate with village chiefs and local militia against the Vietcong.As CO of his unit, he led patrol and combat missions,and he vividly recreates the suspense of night ambushes and the high-pitched emotion of surprise attacks and man-to-man warfare in the swamps and jungles of the Delta.But he was also involved with the lives of the people of Tram Chin in a role beyond that of military advisor:he became caught up in Vietnamese culture,its local and national politics,and in friendships and families torn apart by war,and was ultimately inducted into a Vietnamese brotherhood - the honourary 'warrior kings'.A disclosure of the facsinating dimension of the war at village level.
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